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The ground. this is the isis stronghold and isis knows it. perhaps they're not terribly afraid to show their faces. it's going to be very tough to get him back with any kind of brute force. there's always the option of trying to send in a rescue force. but in the middle of isis-held territory that might be a very tough proposition. >> bob, jump in there. it is hard enough to get the civilian hostages back. many of them presumably being held in and around the stronghold of raqqa. is there a difference when the hostage is a soldier and then, while we're talking about that, not an american soldie...

Reese. what more do you know about the word that he was murdered by al qaeda during the attempt? >> yeah, good morning. so, we've seen this throughout, my military career, with respect to special operations that concentrate on hostage rescue. and we've seen this throughout history where when the rescue force is going in. right at the last stop. the minute coming in. if the terrorists or people holding hostages feel they see a force coming in on top of them. and they want to get away because they know they're a significant force coming in. the hostages literally become a drag or burden on them....

Medically. i'm holding a form that every service members fills out before they deploy. it includes pictures and things like birth marks and scars as well as statements about personal information so the recovery team can ask them questions only they would know the questions to, things like what year did you get your first pet. earli earlier, i spoke to a s.e.a.l. who has first-hand information about those operations. >> there's security personnel onboard, and they're watching the demeanor to make sure they're not a danger to the rescue force at the same time. you don't know where their heads ar...

And our rescue force debarked trying to pick him up, but within five seconds my crew chief said, hey, we've got him onboard, let's go. so we got everybody back onboard and headed feet wet -- i'm sorry, out towards the ocean again -- and as soon as we hit the med, lead called back to the ship and said, hey, legacy 4-0, feet wet plus one. and we headed back towards the boat. jon: i'm sure that was one happy pilot. >> i'd say about an hour and a half for the whole thing. jon: one happy pilot to get onboard your bird. you talked about premission planning, but that's got to feel, well, pretty intse...

Time. how long did it take you to get to him? >> well, when the call went up, we were in the middle of flight operation supporting the odyssey dawn efforts, and the crew and our maintenance department turned all the planes around, got 'em respotted. we launched the jets and a few moments later after some mission planning, we launched the v-22s. came in fairly low and fast into the area where the survivor was. the whole time we were there the jets overhead were giving us updates as far as location. we did hear that they had dropped, so we were trying to relay a lot of that stuff to the rescue f...